Train Up a Child...

Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."




Why must being the parent of a teenager (or a parent in general) be so stinkin' hard? Teenagers think they know everything don't they?  They think they are invincible and that the world "owes" them something... the world does owe them something- a swift kick in the butt!


Have you ever discovered who someone truly was and were completely and totally shocked by it? Well I have- and my jaw is still on the ground...  


Parenting is hard.  The older my four children get, the smarter my own parents become.


I have no idea how they loved me and had patience with me and didn't kill me despite the horrid awful teenager I was... but i'm so thankful that after every terrible decision I made, they were still waiting for me with arms wide open...(sometimes after a spanking or being grounded, but arms wide open none the less)


Teenagers say things to their parents that cut like a knife- and I don't know about you, but I knew what I was doing and saying was insane- but I just didn't care.  Sometimes things would fly out of my mouth and I desperately wished I could take them back, but because I was so stubborn and full of pride, I thought "oh well, nothing I can do to change that now."


Is being a total jerk at 13 and 14 a rite of passage? And who decided that it was? That person should be smacked!


Even though parenting for me is especially hard right now, I am a firm believer in God's holy word.  I know deep in my spirit that my God is faithful and He is on the throne.  He tells me that if I raise my children according to His word, His values, to be a child full of love and integrity... that when they are older, they will come back to the ways of Christ... that promise is worth enduring this storm...


thanks for listening :)


love-Angy